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Mike Holmgren NFL Head Coach

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- To this day, Bob Harlan insists he's not sure what would have happened to the Green Bay Packers if they didn't start winning in the 1990s. Maybe they would have survived. But maybe pro football in the NFL's smallest city would h...

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Before he said anything else late Friday night, Brett Favre wanted to know this: What were the chances his old general manager, Ron Wolf, gets elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame the next day? Favre had just emerged from two...

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Even if Ron Wolf's career included only his 10-year run as general manager of the Green Bay Packers, his impact on the NFL would have been monumental. What he did in Green Bay had a long-lasting impact. He saved a franchis...

San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York seemingly painted himself in a corner last week when he said he wanted a "teacher" as his next head coach, consistently referencing the late Bill Walsh as the archetype. Because really, only two guys, both of whom ...

With San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York saying he wants a "teacher" in the mold of Bill Walsh as his next head coach, it's been suggested here the likes of 60-something old-schoolers Mike Shanahan and Mike Holmgren could be intriguing candidates. An...

BEREA, Ohio -- Mike Holmgren took a lot of heat for not completing a deal to bring Robert Griffin III to the Cleveland Browns before the 2012 draft. That's a non-deal that looks good right now. But Holmgren, then the team president, had a highe...

Former Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks Mike Holmgren appeared on ESPN 1000's "The Carmen & Jurko Show" on Monday, and discussed some of the challenges Chicago Bears coach Marc Trestman is likely facing with his team at 3-5 coming out of th...

GREEN BAY, Wis. - The best way to get to the street that will be named after Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy is to travel west on Lombardi Avenue and take a left turn onto Holmgren Way. Clearly, the new Mike McCarthy Way will be located in t...

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers are well positioned to contend in the NFC over the next several years because they have perhaps the NFL's three most important components in place: Their quarterback, coach and general manager. Their quarte...

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- LeRoy Butler still gets emotional when he talks about Fritz Shurmur. That was evident again on Monday, when the former Green Bay Packers safety was told that his old defensive coordinator, the late Leonard Frank "Fritz" Shurmur,...

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A month ago, Ted Thompson looked -- and sounded -- worn out. In his annual pre-draft session with reporters, his speech was slower and more deliberate than usual, prompting whispers about his health and questions about how much ...

Now Mike Holmgren says he should have just coached the Cleveland Browns when he was the team's president. No kidding. Of course he should have. In his previous two stints as a coach, Holmgren took two teams to the Super Bowl (Green Bay and S...

Bill Walsh said he needed two years to know Joe Montana would be the San Francisco 49ers' franchise quarterback. Walsh's coaching understudy, Mike Holmgren, generally thought the third year was when a starting quarterback should hit stride. Waitin...

Reading the coverage of the Houston Texans ... We begin with a story that isn't exactly about the Texans and is exactly about the Texans at the same time. On TheMMQB.com, Peter King writes from a conversation he had with Mike Holmgren, who thrice ...